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by smitty1e 3y ago
Remember, kids: the real minimum wage is still holding steady at $0. Once all of the Really Smart People are done bethinking themselves smarter than the market, voters can hopefully overthrow the RSP clique and get back to having, you know,
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Ecclesiastes was a turning point in my case.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Prediction: Self-driving cars and their infrastructure are installed in a couple of densely populated places. Then the reality of the Orwellian tradeoff involved in surrendering that much personal sovereignty sets in, and the adoption falte
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Sure, in a passive sense, there is more information dissemination within the church. That's not the same thing as installing an app on a smart phone and going door-knocking. Putting out fliers in the absence of a "no soliciting&qu
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I don't doubt that some use this, but getting most Christians past FaceBook would be something of a feat.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I mean: "The Fitzwilliam Museum has suggested that paintings of the British countryside evoke dark “nationalist feelings”." Winston Smith got nothin' on these guys. Via https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives&#
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I can only see getting into VR for very specific, limited duration tasks. Call me a Luddite, but I am increasingly disdainful of all the New Shiny stuff, and see society trending toward lower-tech, traditional pursuits.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I think it needs three areas, not two: 1. User space 2. Kernel 3. Hardware/network The kernel protects users from hardware, and hardware from users.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Reminder that there are a finite number of chip fabs and, as challenging as it is for the Free Software Foundation, hardware is worse.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Or they can enlist in the military for this sort of experience, and get paid, too. Certain behavioral restrictions apply, but the concept of externalizing all of the lower-level Maslow's Hierarchy needs has been thoroughly worked. It i
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Related Jeffrey Tucker in Epoch Times: The Financial Crisis Begins https://link.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/opinion/the-financial...
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The godz of the market will not be mocked. If AI hoovers up too much juice supporting Rule 34[1] then prices are going to rise no matter which direction the finger points. This is a self-correcting "problem". [1] https:/&#x2
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Whereas I wondered what a Roman numeral 40 had to do with image files.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
In mentioning the myriad of git UX "porcelain" offerings, an important historical point is missed: Torvalds couldn't just implement git due to the BitKeeper license. So Linus essential wrote a data model, and others implement
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I contend that a minimal amount of regulation is required to maintain the dynamic tension between buyer, seller, and marketplace.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Probably need a phalanx of lawyers to wage the inevitable legal war. Which should turn into an anti-trust action against HP by the government. Or at least it would, were free-market capitalism still an actual goal.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Capitalism is buyer, seller, and marketplace kept in dynamic tension by minimal regulation. So let's admit that regulatory capture has occurred and set about reform.
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Klamath Dam Removal: 'It's an Environmental Disaster'(californiaglobe.com)
3 points by smitty1e 3y ago|2 comments
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Oh, don't even blame the machines. Blame the complacency of the people who, instead of using technology for a leg up on Maslow's hierarchy, opted to join the livestock operating at the base. Tech could liberate and support improve
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by smitty1e 3y ago
As a fellow celebrant, the Word can be seen as the operating system of life. By all means, reject this assertion, but feel free to share: what's written on your boot sector?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
.csv is great if you want to browse output in a spreadsheet. Wobbly format? Sure. But if the data are purely internal, why not opt for convenience?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> Right now, it looks more like we're on the way to becoming morlocks and eloi. Why the ad hominem ? not that I disagree with your point (especially with disrespect to the purported elite critics in my original post) but yes: the
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by smitty1e 3y ago
The arguments in the linked article all seem rooted in a traditional Western weltanschauung . This worldview is increasingly characterized (not without basis) as racist, sexist and fascist, mostly by critics whose personal positive contrib
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> Always say less than necessary. I think of this as: "bat clean-up". On man whom I respect more than almost anyone breathing makes a point of letting everyone else do the talking, and then he will (if necessary) offer an overl
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by smitty1e 3y ago
"Brown-chicken-brown-cow": the '70s
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by smitty1e 3y ago
> Or perhaps we should ban everything that can enable "the stupid" to harm themselves. Quite a bit of capitalism is predicated on the market not being very bright.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
I predict the end state of Windows is a user experience like Aqua is on Darwin for Apple. That is, Wubuntu = Darwin. If Redmond can't beat Torvalds, and the cost of kernel development continues to get less affordable when Office365, Ac
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Why is there no market for quality? Privacy? Repairability? Have we any remaining pretense of capitalism?
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by smitty1e 3y ago
Every single policy on offer today, irrespective of party, is about demolishing liberty. The one side of Leviathan offers a slower rate of demolition. That's pretty much it.
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by smitty1e 3y ago
This is a serious, innocent question: how come there is no business model predicated upon the right to repair? If there is market demand, and any capitalism remaining, it seems counter-intuitive that we are asking the government to step in

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